When rains became floods
Subtitle: a child soldier's story
By: Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez ; with the collaboration of Yerko Castro Neira ; foreword by Carlos Iván Degregori ; introduction by Orin Starn ; translated by Margaret Randall
Contributors: Castro Neira, Yerko; Randall, Margaret, 1936-; Starn, Orin; Degregori, Carlos Iván
Series: Latin America in Translation; Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780822358428; 9780822358510
Subjects: Politics and government; Child soldiers; Quechua Indians; Political violence; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group); Biography; History
Work titles: Memorias de un soldado desconocido
Description: When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an anthropologist. Gavilan Sanchez's words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: In the ranks of Shining Path; title: At the military base; title: Time in the franciscan convent; title: I return to the countryside of Ayacucho.